Midwifery care is based on a respect for pregnancy as a state of health and childbirth as a normal physiologic process and a profound event in a woman’s life. – Philosophy of Midwifery Care in Ontario

Welcome your child into the world in the skilled and loving hands of one of our midwives, in your own home or in hospital. Enjoy our professional, respectful and personalized service, as we continue the long tradition of combining art and science into the care of pregnant people and babies. Sages-Femmes Rouge Valley Midwives is a group of 12 midwives providing quality care to clients throughout pregnancy, birth and for 6 weeks postpartum. Explore our website for more information and feel free to contact us with any questions.

Sages-Femmes Rouge Valley Midwives has had the honour of catching the first baby born in water at The Scarborough Hospital General Campus! Click here to read an article about it. Want to read more about the benefits of waterbirth? Start atWaterbirth International’swebsite. For a thorough review of the evidence and research done on waterbirth, check out this article on Evidence Based Birth’swebsite.

It’s our first week at the new clinic, and we aregraduallygetting used to the space. We are very pleasedto have more clinic rooms and bathrooms, andappreciate our clients’ gracious understanding of some areas that are still “under construction”. Happy holidays to everyone from all of us!

Our new clinic will still be located at Port Union and Kingston Road, in the Rylander Plaza; address and directions will be updated once we are start doing clinic appointments in our new, bigger and betterspace. Unfortunately, this means we will no longer be offering appointments at the current Ajax site after December. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes to our clients, but we cannot continue to support two clinics at this time. More info on the move to follow in future updates. UPDATE: Opening date at the new place is December 22!

Use the link in the sidebar to access announcements from our midwives and clinic staff. We hope to be more active on social media over time. FYI, there is also a Facebook page set up by previous clients called “I gave birth with Sages-Femmes Rouge Valley Midwives!”, which you can visit by clicking here.

The word midwife comes from Anglo-Saxon words: mid = with and wif = woman. Midwife means someone who is with the woman in her labour. In French, a midwife is a sage-femme, which means a wise woman providing care.